Miriam Margolyes: What has been your biggest disappointment?

What has been your biggest disappointment?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Miriam Margolyes said elsewhere, not written here

Never to have played at the National or the RSC.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 July 2025 source ↗

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Sally Hawkins British actress

Realising that I wasn't a fairy changeling child and that David Bowie wasn't the fairy king.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 July 2011 source ↗

Tony Christie

My wife and I were meant to meet Frank Sinatra before he went on stage in Hamburg. But there was a taxi-drivers’ strike and we were too late.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 January 2024 source ↗

Mandy Patinkin American actor and singer

Citizens around the world blaming others for their personal disappointments, othering them, labelling them, terrorising them with hate-filled rhetoric and shutting the doors of their hearts.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 October 2019 source ↗

Kathy Burke British actress

As a kid, discovering my brain wasn't controlled by The Numskulls from The Beezer.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 April 2011 source ↗